Why Public Banks Outperform Private Banks – From North Dakota to Switzerland

Despite the benefits they offer, publicly-owned banks could wind up getting sued for unfair competition under the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

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E.U. Showdown As Greece Takes on the Vampire Squid

The question is not why the Greek people are rising up to reject barbarous austerity measures – but what took them so long.

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Russian Roulette: Will Taxpayers Be on the Hook for Trillions in Oil Derivatives?

The sudden dramatic collapse in the price of oil may result in vast derivative losses – and the FDIC could be liable following the recent repeal of key portions of the Dodd-Frank Act.

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New G-20 Rules Authorize Global Seizures of Public Deposits and Pensions

Global leaders may not have known what they were endorsing last month – or did they? – when they rubber-stamped a resolution that completely changes the rules of banking.

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Surprise, Goldman Sachs: Public Bank of North Dakota Just Outperformed Wall Street

New figures reveal that public banks are safer for depositors, allow public infrastructure costs to be cut in half – and provide a non-criminal alternative to a Wall Street cartel caught in a laundry list of frauds.

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Building an Ark: How to Protect Public Revenues from the Next Meltdown

While the too-big-to-fail banks have collectively grown 37% larger since 2008, we are steamrolling toward the greatest financial disaster in world history, and nobody is doing much of anything to stop it.

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Scotland May Not Be Independent – But A Public Bank Will Bring Economic Sovereignty

A publicly-owned bank could help Scotland take control of its own economic destiny by avoiding unnecessary debt to a private banking system that's become a burden to the economy.

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Ticket to Insolvency: The Fed's Bizarre New Rules to Asset-Strip Local Government

The latest misguided move by regulators could result in serious collateral damage to cities – maybe serious enough to finally propel them into bankruptcy.

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Even the Council on Foreign Relations Says It's Time to Rain Money on Main Street

When an article appears in Foreign Affairs recommending that the Federal Reserve do a money drop directly on the 99%, you know the central bank must be down to its last bullet.

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Extortion in Argentina: Odious Debt Is Pillaging the Nation into Bankruptcy

The lesson is this: if creditors know that a few holdout vultures can trigger a default, they're unlikely to settle with other insolvent nations in the future.

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